FLUROITE STONE 12.4 CTS [ST196 ]

Item Information

This is a very attractive natural stone cut from the same rock which has been heat treated .It is showing vibrant colours.

Weight 12.4 cts app

Size 18x 13x5.8 mm app

Fluorite is a mineral with a amazing array of brilliant colors. Fluorite is well known and prized for its glassy luster and rich variety of colors. The range of common colors for fluorite starting from purple, then blue, green, yellow, colorless, brown, pink, black and reddish orange is amazing and is only rivaled in color range by quartz. Intermediate pastels between the previously mentioned colors are also possible. It is easy to see why fluorite earns the reputation as "The Most Colorful Mineral in the World".

The many colors of fluorite are truly wonderful. The rich purple color is by far fluorite's most famous and popular color. Sometimes specimens of fluorite and amethyst with similar shades of purple are used in mineral identification classes to illustrate the folly of using color as the sole means to identify minerals.